Carl Hiaasen, the best-selling chronicler of Florida’s offbeat and dark side, chooses Martin Amis’s bracing satire ‘Money: A Suicide Note’ for the WSJ Book Club

Carl Hiaasen has a built a reputation exploring the seedy underbelly of Florida in novels like “Skinny Dip” and “Sick Puppy.” Schemers, corruption, and shady characters populate his fiction. But Mr. Hiaasen was shocked when, in the mid-1980s, he picked up Martin Amis’s “Money: A Suicide Note.”

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“He pushes you right to the edge of unease and discomfort and it’s beyond cringe-worthy. It...